Much of desktop computing *is* disk-bound. Booting is just loading crap off the disk into RAM. Launching apps is reading from the disk. Otherwise Photoshop CS would launch in a second or two instead of a minute or more. Indeed, once apps are loaded, there may not be a lot of disk activity, but lots of people spend lots of time launching and closing apps in a desktop environment. Imagine if Photoshop *did* launch in 1 second. You could think of it more as a utility than the monster that it is. RAID 0 has certainly gotten me closer to the "all apps as utilities" mindset.
Ask any programmer who has worked on large system using strongly-typed and untyped languages which they prefer. They're probably all still working in Scheme/Lisp or Smalltalk and never went back to their tinkertoys, aka C++.
Which is more or less what a TiVo and subscription cost. Plus, most people are going to want some sort of optical drive in their PC. And your machine is going to be a bit tight on RAM probably.
I have a 1GHz TBird + cheap mobo, 256MB RAM, a 40GB HD, cheap case, a GeForce 4 MX440, and a PVR250. I'm using ATI's Remote Wonder and running SnapStream PVS 3.4 beta (on Win2K) with myHTPC as a frontend. Functionality-wise, it's a great setup. I'm about to pop another 80GB drive in and I'll be set for a while. All in all, with parts I already had, I think it put about $500 into hardware and software and enjoy having the system.
On the downside, there was far too much fiddling I had to do to get things right. If I were to do it all again, I probably would just by a TiVO and get the home media option.
Bottom line: Whatever you do, get a PVR250/350 for your capture card. Software capture cards simply don't hold a candle. Everyone who starts with a WinTV Go or other software card ends up upgrading to a PVR250 (yours truly included). Do yourself a favor and go straight for the PVR250.
Unfortunately for the free PVR software packages, there is no free guide data. xmltv can be (and is widely) used, but it typically grabs data by scraping from zap2it, where there the TOS explicitly forbids this ("you may not modify, copy, frame, cache, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any portion of the Content"). If Freevo or MythTV got large enough to show up on Tribune Media Services' (the owner of zap2it) radar, they'd be squashed like bugs.
Too bad no one offers a subscription-based xmltv feed.
The size of the relation between violent video game play and aggressive behavior is larger than the size of the relation between second-hand smoke and lung cancer, or that between lead exposure and decreased IQ in children (Gentile, 2003).
How about that for "the two actions are unrelated"?
Maybe you ate too much lead paint as a kid to be able to see the obvious connection between violent media and violent people (oh wait, lead and decreased IQ are unrelated).
I'm pleased to know that I'm in the 0.01% of people. We're an elite clique of 600,000 worldwide.
I'm tired of "owning" music. I have about 500 CDs. That's about 5000 too few. There's just too much good music out there. When I buy a CD, I have to take the time to go to (the store|Amazon), get it (home|in the mail), rip it, classify it by genre, get the album art from (Amazon|AllMusic), sync it to my Lyra, etc, etc. Plus I'm out $10-20. Rhapsody, I find the album I want to hear, I click on it, I listen. 70-80% of my searches have been successful so far. Ten bucks a month.
If I can't listen to it in 10 years, who cares? I'll sign up for something else or just go back to buying CDs. I just signed up for Rhapsody today to get easy access to a bunch of Umphrey's McGee live shows. I think I may be sticking around.
I know that it is 'secure' only because of it's relative obscurity.
I personally know very little about security
Lemme get this straight. You "personally know very little about security" and you claim that the app is insecure?
Perhaps I should declare I know little about auto maintenance but I'm certain that my car is going to blow up the next time I drive it!
FWIW, Windows Movie Maker supports 16:9. I've done 16:9 from camcorder to MSWMM to TMpegEnc to DVD (via Sonic's MyDVD) and the results are quite nice (as long as you let TMpegEnc chew on the file for a long while).
Just get a job at McDonald's for a few years here in the states and then use your saving to simply *buy* the government of St. Lucia. Voila! Telecom deregulation.
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It searches my h:\ drive just fine (which is "subst-ed" to c:\Program Files\cygwin\home\jase
Much of desktop computing *is* disk-bound. Booting is just loading crap off the disk into RAM. Launching apps is reading from the disk. Otherwise Photoshop CS would launch in a second or two instead of a minute or more. Indeed, once apps are loaded, there may not be a lot of disk activity, but lots of people spend lots of time launching and closing apps in a desktop environment. Imagine if Photoshop *did* launch in 1 second. You could think of it more as a utility than the monster that it is. RAID 0 has certainly gotten me closer to the "all apps as utilities" mindset.
Hello OO? Polymorhpism? Inheritance?
How about:
BarConstruct(platform) {
Class class = BarParentClass.getClass(platform);
class.constructAppBar();
}
Whenever you start doing case statements/multiple if/elseifs in an OO language, think "polymorphism"!
No, but he's married to Asia Carrera, is Jenna Jameson's brother and Ron Jeremy's son.
Legal, shmegal. I guarantee the artist isn't getting a single ruble from music sold at allofmp3.com. So I'm not buyin.
Not that they're getting much when I buy from iTMS, either. Wish I could buy direct from the artist...
Emacs & XEmacs. Lisp implementations masquerading as editors.
Scheme has (almost) no syntax. Maybe it the lack of syntax that is not newbie friendly.
As far as misplaced parens, Emacs and show-paren-mode are your friend.
Wish I could moderate that one. +5 funny! A new addition to my .sig file...
You've just described my Timex Expedition. It was about $30 at the local Osco (drugstore).
Ask any programmer who has worked on large system using strongly-typed and untyped languages which they prefer. They're probably all still working in Scheme/Lisp or Smalltalk and never went back to their tinkertoys, aka C++.
Which is more or less what a TiVo and subscription cost. Plus, most people are going to want some sort of optical drive in their PC. And your machine is going to be a bit tight on RAM probably.
I have a 1GHz TBird + cheap mobo, 256MB RAM, a 40GB HD, cheap case, a GeForce 4 MX440, and a PVR250. I'm using ATI's Remote Wonder and running SnapStream PVS 3.4 beta (on Win2K) with myHTPC as a frontend. Functionality-wise, it's a great setup. I'm about to pop another 80GB drive in and I'll be set for a while. All in all, with parts I already had, I think it put about $500 into hardware and software and enjoy having the system.
On the downside, there was far too much fiddling I had to do to get things right. If I were to do it all again, I probably would just by a TiVO and get the home media option.
Bottom line: Whatever you do, get a PVR250/350 for your capture card. Software capture cards simply don't hold a candle. Everyone who starts with a WinTV Go or other software card ends up upgrading to a PVR250 (yours truly included). Do yourself a favor and go straight for the PVR250.
Unfortunately for the free PVR software packages, there is no free guide data. xmltv can be (and is widely) used, but it typically grabs data by scraping from zap2it, where there the TOS explicitly forbids this ("you may not modify, copy, frame, cache, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any portion of the Content"). If Freevo or MythTV got large enough to show up on Tribune Media Services' (the owner of zap2it) radar, they'd be squashed like bugs.
Too bad no one offers a subscription-based xmltv feed.
Maybe you ate too much lead paint as a kid to be able to see the obvious connection between violent media and violent people (oh wait, lead and decreased IQ are unrelated).
1 decibel what? A decibel is not a unit. It's a ratio. A power ratio to be exact. 1 dB SPL?
Oops. Make that:
/dev/null
$ mv patch >
$ XWin -fullscreen
Or you could do the following: $ mv patch > /dev/null
$ XWin -fullscreen
iTunes is actively courting indie labels. Check out cdbaby.com/dd for an example.
I'm pleased to know that I'm in the 0.01% of people. We're an elite clique of 600,000 worldwide.
I'm tired of "owning" music. I have about 500 CDs. That's about 5000 too few. There's just too much good music out there. When I buy a CD, I have to take the time to go to (the store|Amazon), get it (home|in the mail), rip it, classify it by genre, get the album art from (Amazon|AllMusic), sync it to my Lyra, etc, etc. Plus I'm out $10-20. Rhapsody, I find the album I want to hear, I click on it, I listen. 70-80% of my searches have been successful so far. Ten bucks a month.
If I can't listen to it in 10 years, who cares? I'll sign up for something else or just go back to buying CDs. I just signed up for Rhapsody today to get easy access to a bunch of Umphrey's McGee live shows. I think I may be sticking around.
Nicely clarified. Thanks.
FWIW, Windows Movie Maker supports 16:9. I've done 16:9 from camcorder to MSWMM to TMpegEnc to DVD (via Sonic's MyDVD) and the results are quite nice (as long as you let TMpegEnc chew on the file for a long while).
Just get a job at McDonald's for a few years here in the states and then use your saving to simply *buy* the government of St. Lucia. Voila! Telecom deregulation.
Nor is it to early to go back to high school and learn to spel.